Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my o...
I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.
I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.
I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.
I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.
Music was very influential on me as a kid.
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and I like the way in music that themes come back.
For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music together.
You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.
Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.
I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.
I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.
I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.
